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I'm not sure what I can blame your ridiculous analogy on, be it government school or whatever, but let's take it a step further and look at it your way.

You say the states are the final say, that the state must intervene on behalf of her citizens. So what if the Alabama legislature outlaws the practice of any religion but Southern Baptist? Louisiana gets all huffy and makes Roman Catholicism the only acceptable faith. Florida bans Methodists AND guns at the same time. So you have each state "intervening on behalf of her citizens." A person riding on Amtrack between New Orleans and Miami would have to get baptised half a dozen times during the course of the trip. You have 50 different entities deciding 50 different meanings of one document. Why have a Constitution in the first place?

The Constitution lays out the authority and responsibility of the Supreme Court. It says when the court has jurisdiction, the duty to interpret and apply the law. When it comes to matters of what is Constitutional or what is not then it is the Supreme Court who decides. Not you. Not me. Not, as Andrew Jackson pointed out, the state.

I never said that the States were the final arbiter as to what is right or wrong. If a State violates the constitution of the U.S. or its own constitution, it is the duty of the people to remedy the situation.

The reason we have a constitution is to set down the regulations for all to follow, including the Supreme Court. The Court in deciding the law, is not above the law. As long as the court follows what is actually written in the Constitution, there is no problem. Instead, loose constructionists bastardize the constitution to promote their own socialist, atheist agenda.

There is a proper course of action to solve all abuses of power be it by the county, State, or Federal government whether it is from the executive, legislative, or judicial branch. The power in this country is supposed to come from the bottom up though, and not the top down. Thus, the people are the ultimate arbiters. Their representation with the federal government is through the State. The federal government as the most distant from the people is properly, the most limited.